RR 2 Pages for week of Jan 24-28

From all of the reading this past week a couple of things really caught my attention. From the Ching book the rock cut tombs were very interesting to me. I think it is amazing in how you can carve almost a city looking structure into the side of a mountain and hollow rooms and things of that nature without any materials other than what the mountain was. It seems to be very difficult and it looks great. I like how they stacked rooms and windows above each other to stack a city into a mountain. Although it was a tomb the outside of it looks more elegant to look as though people had lived there. The details of columns and windows are so fascinating and done with great care to show off the purpose they wanted to pursue with it. The tombs were inside of the carved out structure and were very deep below openings almost like rooms.

                Another interesting reading was about the theater in the Roth book. What I like about the theater was that today this is how theaters are. It is cool to think that something so simple in reality was kept for so many years. I think this structure is especially appealing to me because it stack layers after layers but to serve purpose for multiple people to sit and enjoy a show or whatever is going on. They grouped seats but in a way that it stacked to save room in a sense because the higher seats it doesn’t matter about space up high. If you were to build seats like they are now but where they didn’t stack but grouped close on a lower level it would be infinite to try and arrange them in a way to make it able to see and save room from the theater being miles long. Another thing about the theater is that it wraps around to a focal point. Its main purpose and view is a circular area where the activity is going on.  Its purpose is served well of trying to fit many people for one section.

BP 2 Ten Ideas on UNCG

Ten Ideas on UNCG

A picture showing the outline of UNCG and how we used the space provided to space out and build things in places.

Space- Space is applied to UNCG in my opinion by how we use area that is designated to building the school on.  We have only a certain amount of space that we can build on and I think it is applied to how we manage our space to create more space so things are not crowded. Space is also generated by how we obtain areas spaced out for certain activities, the sports fields and social areas for example.

Power- Power is applied to UNCG by showing that our school is a place that really can make an impact on students. The entrance to UNCG with the big brick walls on both sides and trees along the roads leading you show the school is a powerful environment to learn in. Power is also shown with the neo classical buildings we have with steps to go up to the building with columns to show it has a masculine powerful structure and importance.

Experience- Experience is shown with our numerous memorabilia’s around campus. Showing that we have been here for many, many years and showing where we have came from to the place that we are today. The plaques and statues around show that we have the experience of being an educating institution.  Back then our dorms were made out of the materials that they had then. Our dorms now still show that a little but renovated to the show the experience of today’s world and the materials we have now.

Beliefs- Belief is shown through our school because of what it is. It is a place to educate. The believe that people should be educated is shown in every building on campus. We also have places of worship either on the campus or right outside of the campus to show that we do believe in a god or some kind of supernatural that has a meaning to us.

Surface- Surface is shown through everything on campus. The ground we walk and build on. The texture of buildings, walk ways, and places we sit for class. Surface is shown just by looking at UNCG. The entire place is a surface. Everything on campus has its own unique surface in a way to show what kind of place it is. Education buildings have more elegance to them than the place we live in or eat in.

Technology- UNCG represents technology with the illusions of columns we have.  The EUC shows this well on the front looking like a hangover in front of the doors when really they are columns. Technology also shows with how we build and design the buildings. Today’s technology can amount to different styles and additions to buildings that people back in older years didn’t have the advantage of using to carve or design certain things.

Site- Site is expressed through the space on which areas of buildings are on. The site on how it sits is important. The taller dorms show site well because the site where they were built have many trees and is founded on ditch, giving the need to build them vertically. This go’s for all buildings. They are built by what site they are given and the terrain.

Order- Order is shown with how we organized our buildings. The order of campus is by major. It goes from art area to communication areas to nursing to science. There is an order of where to have things to benefit other buildings. Science and nursing go together and to build that close is an order to help relate to things together. Living is in an order by upper classmen to underclassmen. Also to sports needing areas with more room and going to smaller areas for sports that don’t need as much room. Order is shown through many aspects on how our campus is set up.  

Scale- Scale is shown by how our buildings are to scale. They are built to hold many people for a place meant for many people. The EUC is a main place for people in campus so it is built to scale to obtain more people to be in there at one time. The art museum is built to scale to hold art that may have size but not to hold many people because of the fact that many people at one time will not be in this building.



A Diagram (Blueprint) to show how things are managed and built to show how much room for each place needed.



Precedent- Is related to UNCG by the way the campus was built and designed the way it was. It was to me designed to have a intellectual elegant design to show that education is important and a good place to spend alot of time at to learn and become more intellectual. UNCG was put up the way it was to promote learning in a positive way by how the buildings are designed. They are nice and taken care of.

Blog Post 1/ UNCG Walk

                Through the walk around UNCG I learned a lot of new things about circles, stacking, and grouping. Things I would not have realized or even took the time to really appreciate. I don’t know if how campus was set up was thought about with these three components or if it is a just a ritual society has become used to.  I realized a lot with circles.  An example of Circles is on the left where the heart of how structures and other things are set up.  A circle is the center of all great things. At UNCG on College Avenue they have circles every couple of yards all along the sidewalk. It was interesting that the biggest circle was the circle where the EUC was on one side the ends of College Avenue are on other sides where you can see big buildings and then the other side is another building. It was representing the heart of campus where the center of campus stood. The other small circles were at cross walks and also pointing to the ends of the sidewalk.  This also showed a main area where sidewalks interlinked.

Another aspect I saw was grouping. A lot of buildings and areas on campus are set up to group certain things. The EUC is made to group other buildings because it is the main spot on campus. Dorms are grouped so students can all be close together and have an area just for social and living. Parking decks as well are grouped to have many big buildings and areas around because the majority of traffic for students is these buildings. The recreation center is grouped around the fields for easy access and to have that athletic feel to it. I chose the picture below to show a parking area but grouped by many buildings because it is logical and convenient for parking.

Stacking was the other thing we viewed when walking around UNCG. The alumni house and the curry building were good examples of this. They both had a neoclassical design to them meaning that they were symmetrical. They showed stacking well because of their columns.  They were evenly spaced and stacked to hold up the front well. It shows great stacking by the huge steps up to the building or top of what the structure is. It starts big a gets smaller where the house, or whatever it is will be on the top.

All of these details are rituals now because of how many years they have been used. We use circles to show major and important parts of our environment. We group major things in our environment for better access and to show what part of this environment the area might be. Stacking in our environment shows masculine features to show importance. For example pillars to show this is a place of greatness or royalty.

RR 1 Practice/ Nuhenling

                Niuheliang is a burial site over many hills in Mongolia. It covers about 30 miles.  Site 1 is where ritual was held. About 4500 meters southeast of that, huge buildings are held. East of that huge stones are evenly spaced out that are tombs. This is a religious artifact for the Hongshan culture with temples and alters.

                The picture to the bottom is a tomb from this structure.  To this culture the stone tombs were most important relics to them. Coffins in the bottom of tombs were layered and layered with many slabs of stone to protect these people’s remains.  This tombs were held in ditch like structures that went down far to keep this sacred.

SOURCES:  Wikipedia.com                      http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/Archaeology/98175.htm#1